Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhode Island would count soldier votes up to Dec. 4. Pennsylvania, which believed that it had the biggest number of applications (620,000) will not count them until Nov. 22. If the soldier vote should be the determining factor, the U.S. may have to wait days or even weeks after Nov. 7 to learn the election results...
...will not be a single empty seat in any of the six top Moscow theaters at any performance this entire season. The hunger for good entertainment is very great. The audience is very well behaved. Curtains usually go up exactly on time, and playgoers not in their seats must wait for the first curtain before being let in. Intermissions are interminable. I was able to read the whole of each act of The Cherry Orchard in the intermission preceding...
...Leroy ("Tex") Harris, escorting the bombers over Davao Gulf, reported by radio that they had spotted a Jap destroyer. Tex radioed blithely: "Wait about five minutes and I'll tell you where it was-repeat was." Less than five minutes later the bombers had sunk the destroyer...
...better than a thousand miles a day, playing even two bad shows, eating C-or K-rations more often than hot groceries, much of it standing up, and then when it's littler girl's-room time, go down to the men's toilet and wait till it's cleared so that the girl troupers...
...last week redemption could no longer wait for the peace table. Reporters were unexpectedly called to the White House at 7 p.m. one evening, there handed a Presidential announcement. Said Mr. Roosevelt: the U.S. is immediately redeeming that part of the Italian invasion currency used to pay U.S. troops. It is doing this by setting up in the U.S. a dollar credit for Italy. Italy can spend the credit on food, medicine, industrial machinery, etc. through Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration, the deliveries to be made in any free space on the already heavily loaded Army ships...